Following a fierce backlash for leaving out Imran Khan from a video celebrating the nation’s achievements on the cricket subject, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) launched an up to date model of the footage with the 1992 World Cup-winning captain Imran Khan in it.
While re-releasing the up to date video on Thursday, the PCB referred to as it the “original version” and acknowledged that the sooner video excluded “significant clips due to time constraints.”
“The PCB has launched a promotional campaign leading up to the CWC 2023. One of the videos was uploaded on 14th August 2023. Due to its length, the video was abridged and some important clips were missing. This has been rectified in the complete version of the video,” PCB wrote on its social media platform with the brand new video.
The PCB has launched a promotional marketing campaign main as much as the CWC 2023. One of the movies was uploaded on 14th August 2023. Due to its size, the video was abridged and a few essential clips have been lacking. This has been rectified within the full model of the video ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/Rz2OBDyI9i
— Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) August 16, 2023
The up to date model has added 4 components to the video together with Khan’s contributions and lifting the coveted trophy as captain in 1992, Misbah-ul-Haq’s Test mace victory, the Women’s groups victory on the Asia Cup and Nida Dar’s achievement of 100 wickets.
Earlier Khan’s teammate and member of the 1992 World Cup profitable marketing campaign Wasim Akram, too, lashed out on the PCB for not together with Imran Khan within the video.
Asking the PCB to delete the video and apologise, Akram wrote on X (previously referred to as Twitter), “After long flights and hours of transit before reaching Sri Lanka, I got the shock of my life when I watched PCB’s short clip on the history of Pakistan cricket minus the great Imran Khan… political differences apart but Imran Khan is an icon of world cricket and developed Pakistan into a strong unit in his time and gave us a pathway… PCB should delete the video and apologise.”
The cricketer-turned-politician based the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and served because the Prime Minister of Pakistan from 2018 to 2022. He was faraway from workplace after a profitable vote of no-confidence in 2022 and was lately jailed for alleged corruption costs.
